Planting Justice Blog
Haleh Zandi Interviewed on Awakin.org : Our History
From anti-war organizing to a sustainable food system…Below you can check out Director of Education and Co-Founder of Planting Justice Haleh Zandi's interview with Fernando Grajeda from Awakin,...
Planting Seeds of Sustainability in the Stanislaus County Juvenile Commitment Center
When we came back to the Stanislaus County Juvenile Commitment Center for the first time since our two-day garden build we were eager to be able to teach and learn from the new students we would...
Owens Valley Puhidua Registry
From Food for Thought, Issue 9. Published in August 2013. Re-blogged from nativefarms.org/blog.
Seed Keepers Training: September 20-21
Re-blogged from nativefarms.org/blog
Justice Bus Shows Solidarity at Youth Summit
This past week Planting Justice team members Maya, Wiley, and Tylen all went to Rooted in Community's Northern California Youth Day at Pie Ranch in Pescadero. And we didn't travel alone, no, we...
Meet Anthony Forrest – Planting Justice Landscaper, Educator and Canvasser!
Pathways 2 Resilience – Innovations in Reentry Video
Innovations in Reentry by Spencer Wilkinson and Endangered Ideas
Oglala Sioux – Pine Ridge, South Dakota (Cross-Post from the Indigenous Farming Project)
“I WANT TO SATURATE PINE RIDGE WITH HEALTHY VEGETABLES,” says Steve Hernandez, Oglala Sioux Tribe gardening instructor. “The interest in gardening here is huge, and education is key. Through...
Burnt Out? From Wilted to Holistic Wellness
As part of our ongoing education program at Santa Rita Jail, Planting Justice offered a workshop that featured 'Holistic Wellness' for about 30 incarcerated women. Incarcerated women are often...
Bounty Behind Bars
Building the Juvenile Redemption Garden at the Stanislaus Juvenile Commitment Facility was something that I have been talking about for a couple of months now. I would call donors every day to tell...
Gender Justice Training at Planting Justice
Our last monthly staff meeting was so fruitful, we thought we’d share some of the lessons learned during our “Gender Justice” training. Gender oppression, both personal and political, can often be...
Will the Alternative Food Movement Confront Economic Inequality?
Will the Alternative Food Movement Confront Economic Inequality? Joshua Sbicca A few weeks ago, the Senate voted against raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The vote came after heavy...
Work with PJ : Planting Justice is Hiring a Canvasser!
Planting Justice Canvasser Job Description and Overview Organizational Background: Planting Justice is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Oakland, CA with a mission to democratize access...
Planting Justice @ Oakland Tech
Huey P. Newton garden mural pictured above was created by Peoples Grocery, a food justice organization working in the very community the Panthers free breakfast program began, West Oakland Recently,...
Growing Clean Energy Jobs in Oakland! An Oakland Climate Action Coalition Community Forum
On Saturday, April 5th, Youth UpRising hosted an exciting day of people-powered solutions for climate action, local clean energy, and jobs. Over 90 people of all ages and backgrounds and more than...
Event!: Decolonizing Permaculture : An interactive workshop with Adam Brock
Planting Justice is hosting Adam Brock from Grow Haus and the Denver Permaculture Guild @ Impact Hub Oakland on Wednesday the 19th, 6-8 pm. "Decolonizing Permaculture": An interactive workshop...
Civil Eats Article! Gardening Behind Bars: San Quentin’s First Harvest
By Anna Rohleder on March 6, 2014 Eric Davis remembers the first time he saw the flower garden at San Quentin prison. “It [was] the only green thing in the yard,” he recalls. Last fall, the Insight...
Planting Justice March Newsletter!
Feeding Our Roots, a food sovereignty reflection by Marcelo Garzo
At Planting Justice, we work to grow food, grow jobs and grow community. What we are also doing is growing culture. We are sowing the seeds of justice, tending to our vulnerable and tender...
!Event! : Black History Month Celebration With Phat Beets!
Come Celebrate Black History Month with Phat Beets @ the Driver Plaza 60th St @ Adeline. Feb 28th 3:30-7:30 PM
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Making Vitamin Water from the Garden : Putting People Before Profits by Haleh Zandi
Making Vitamin Water from the Garden : Putting People Before Profits In March 2004, the people of Plachimada in Kerala, India successfully shut down a $16 million Coca Cola bottling plant. The...
Documentary: Tree Ring Film Fund is raising money to film Planting Justice’s Pathways 2 Resilience Collaboration!!!
Please share and support this fundraising campaign!!! Tree Ring Film Fund is fundraising to shoot a professional film of our Pathways 2 Resilience project!!! Members of Tree Ring Productions are...
Building a Vegetable Garden in the Stanislaus County Juvenile Commitment Center
Many of the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated adults we work with were incarcerated as youth. Youth who spend their teenage years incarcerated are often released as young adults into hostile,...
Planting Justice and Dig Deep Farms & Produce Team Up!!!
Planting Justice and Dig Deep Farms & Produce (DDF&P) are proud to announce a new partnership on DDF&P’s hillside Cityview Farm. This partnership aims to afford DDF&P a greater...
Prison Series: Sustainability in Prisons Network Goes National by Paul M. Sheldon
With the completion of its second national Symposium, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Sustainability in Prisons Project Network has officially gone national. The first...
Prison Series: Green jobs training smooths reentry process by Paul Sheldon
With the increasing recognition of “green” technologies and practices as an effective way to save money and provide innovative sources of revenue for correctional institutions1, many communities...
KPFA Interview: Terra Verde – Connecting Food Justice, Community Resilience, and Worker Rights
Despite the fact that the Casino brings in over $200 million in revenue, the average Casino worker only earns $9.60/hour and hasn't received a raise in 4 years. While workers continue their struggle...
Planting Justice on NPR!
Planting Justice and Insight Garden Project's recent collaboration building a vegetable garden in San Quentin State Prison was featured this weekend on NPR's Blog: The Salt . Check it out below:...